Welcome to Florida

Best selling author, award winning reporter and Florida native Craig Pittman is joined by radio personality and Florida transplant Chadd Scott to discuss the state's history, people, politics, environment, animals, current events and weirdness. You'll hear great storytelling and have great fun in each weekly episode.

Welcome to Florida is a history podcast hosted by Chadd Scott, with 324 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Chadd Scott hosts Welcome to Florida, a history show with 324 episodes published.

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  Episode #319

  Episode 319: Lovebugs

  Aug 18, 202634 minS7

  The super wealthy have found a new way to exploit Florida's undeveloped land: private auto racing clubs . You know them, you probably hate them, they're lovebugs - the little black bugs that get all over your car during spring and fall. Our guest on this episode, Norman Leppla , University of Florida professor of integrated pest management and biological control, is the nation's leading expert on lovebugs. For only $5 a month , you can support the production of "Welcome to Florida" and receive our weekly Florida Conservation newsletter.

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  Episode #318

  Episode 318: Florida's Notorious Jailhouse Snitch

  Aug 11, 202649 minS7

  Florida wants to take almost $200 million from the federal government earmarked for electric vehicle charging stations and instead waste the money pursuing flying cars. Seriously. Pamela Colloff spent a decade investigating the life and crimes of Paul Skalnik. Skalnik, among other things, was a longtime jailhouse snitch whose phony testimony was relied upon by Pinellas County prosecutors for decades. Colloff shares what she discovered in a new book out this summer, "Catch the Devil: A True Story of Murder, Deception, and Injustice on the Gulf Coast."

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  Episode #317

  Episode 317: Bob Ross

  Aug 4, 202643 minS7

  The Florida Department of Environmental "Protection" refuses to investigate a Key West utility company that has been injecting waste water underground only to have it surface elsewhere. Everyone knows 1980s PBS TV painter Bob Ross , but most people don't associate him with Florida. Ross was born, raised, lived and died in Central Florida. The Bob Ross Art Workshop & Gallery in New Smyrna Beach is open to the public and carries on his legacy. Our guest this episode, Nicholas Hankins, carries on Ross' legacy through a new version of Ross' "Joy of Painting" TV show . Ross mostly painted woodland and mountain scenes, but he did paint Florida on the show one time.

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  Episode #316

  Episode 316: Florida's Independent Bookstores

  Jul 26, 202647 minS7

  The state kept an "enemies list" of outspoken environmental advocates with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission using government and law enforcement databases to illegally track and investigate the citizens. This shocking abuse of power demonstrates how developers and industry run this state and the degree to which the ruling party in Tallahassee will go to maintain that power imbalance. If you'd like to inquire with the state about your DAVID driver's record to see if the state has been investigating you, do that here . Despite leading the nation in book banning, Florida has wonderful independent bookstores. One of the best is Tombolo Books in St. Pete . Alsace Walentine opened Tombolo Books just before the pandemic and tells us about the business of owning a bookstore .

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  Episode #315

  Episode 315: Gulf Sturgeon

  Jul 21, 202645 minS7

  Ron DeSantis first ran for governor promising to solve Florida's water quality problems. Every day in office since then, up nearly to his last, he has broken that promise. Kenneth Sulak joins us on this episode to talk about gulf sturgeon . Sulak spent decades researching this ancient and endangered fish in the Suwanee River and Gulf of Mexico.

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